How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cognition — Jia Wu
Cognition shipped nearly 10x more PRs internally by dogfooding Devin over six months.
“using our agent, we were able to ship almost an order of magnitude more good quality robust PRs across the organization”
Cognition's forward deployed engineering lead describes how the company uses Devin internally as a force multiplier, claiming nearly a 10x step-function increase in PR throughput despite being behind on hiring. The talk also confirms the speaker joined via the Windsurf acquisition, adding context to Cognition's expanding product surface across CLI, IDE, and cloud agent interfaces.